Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,434
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$11,436
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,951
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$58,870
Kept after tax
$47,434
Worth in national money
$50,951
State rank
16
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wisconsin sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $58,870, ranking 16 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Wisconsin, this sits in the middle: 265 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Wisconsin is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $58,870 the take-home is $47,434; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $50,951 would nationally. The average lands at $57,280, below the middle of the range.
- Wisconsin occupies the middle band for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians: a median of $58,870, ranking 16 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 265 of 491 occupations in Wisconsin by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Wisconsin, on $58,870, is $47,434 — equivalent to $50,951 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $57,280 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,800 |
| This salary | $58,870 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Wisconsin | $47,434 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,482 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$30 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $56,321 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$36 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,870 as a midpoint for Wisconsin, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,660 and the ninetieth is $74,800 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wisconsin's $47,434, worked from $58,870. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 265 of 491.
- Two cautions on $50,951, the adjusted value of that $58,870 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wisconsin. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 265 of 491 locally.
- The Wisconsin median of $58,870 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,660 to $74,800. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wisconsin take-home of $47,434, on $58,870 for work ranking 265 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 265 of 491 in the state.
- This $50,951 adjusted figure, worked from $58,870, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 265 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 265 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $38,660 at the bottom tenth to $74,800 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wisconsin is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $50,951 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Wisconsin's own levy, $47,434 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,660 to $74,800) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $50,951 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $47,434 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.